More Matter: Essays and CriticismRandom House Publishing Group, 19. 2. 2009. - 928 страница In this collection of nonfiction pieces, John Updike gathers his responses to nearly two hundred invitations into print, each “an opportunity to make something beautiful, to find within oneself a treasure that would otherwise remain buried.” Introductions, reviews, and humorous essays, paragraphs on New York, religion, and lust—here is “more matter” commissioned by an age that, as the author remarks in his Preface, calls for “real stuff . . . not for the obliquities and tenuosities of fiction.” Still, the novelist’s shaping hand, his gift for telling detail, can be detected in many of these literary considerations. Books by Edith Wharton, Dawn Powell, John Cheever, and Vladimir Nabokov are incisively treated, as are biographies of Isaac Newton, Abraham Lincoln, Queen Elizabeth II, and Helen Keller. As George Steiner observed, Updike writes with a “solicitous, almost tender intelligence. The critic and the poet in him . . . are at no odds with the novelist; the same sharpness of apprehension bears on the object in each of Updike’s modes.” |
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... death . Live free or die , New Hampshire's state motto proclaims from a million license plates . We'll take our chances , we say , in this land of the free and home of the brave . My second novel , Rabbit , Run , concerned a young ...
... death . Live free or die , New Hampshire's state motto proclaims from a million license plates . We'll take our chances , we say , in this land of the free and home of the brave . My second novel , Rabbit , Run , concerned a young ...
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... death . AIDS adds to the smog of malaise . Our bodily fluids , the lubricant of intimacy and the nectar of life , have become death potions ; the sexual revolution of the Sixties , however unrealistic its pot - sweetened hedo- nism ...
... death . AIDS adds to the smog of malaise . Our bodily fluids , the lubricant of intimacy and the nectar of life , have become death potions ; the sexual revolution of the Sixties , however unrealistic its pot - sweetened hedo- nism ...
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... death , was too big to be useful . An editorialist for the French journal Le Monde expressed the paradoxical formula : " The balance of terror is more and more the foundation of peace . " Peace it was , with some skirmishes - most ...
... death , was too big to be useful . An editorialist for the French journal Le Monde expressed the paradoxical formula : " The balance of terror is more and more the foundation of peace . " Peace it was , with some skirmishes - most ...
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... death , seems surprisingly modern and secular . It deals with , in order : the taming of a wild man , Enkidu , by a temple prostitute , Shamhat ; the intense love that A chapter from The Religion Factor : An Introduction to How Religion ...
... death , seems surprisingly modern and secular . It deals with , in order : the taming of a wild man , Enkidu , by a temple prostitute , Shamhat ; the intense love that A chapter from The Religion Factor : An Introduction to How Religion ...
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THE BURGLAR ALARM 220 | 72 |
THE GLITTERING CITY | 79 |
GEOGRAPHICAL CALENDRICAL TOPICAL | 97 |
Babies by Mary Steichen Calderone and Edward Steichen | 684 |
Updike and I | 757 |
Introduction to SelfSelected Stories | 767 |
Foreword to Brother Grasshopper | 773 |
Note on My Father on the Verge of Disgrace | 776 |
Note for an Exhibit of New Yorker Cartoons | 787 |
Christmas Cards | 797 |
Reflections on Radio | 803 |
INTRODUCTIONS | 139 |
AMERICAN PAST MASTERS | 214 |
PHOTOS | 266 |
NORTH AMERICAN CONTEMPORARIES | 291 |
OVERSEAS | 338 |
OTHER CONTINENTS | 397 |
MEDLEYS | 434 |
THINGS AS THEY | 571 |
MOVIES | 641 |
Accepting the Bobst Award | 810 |
Introduction to the Easton Press Edition of the Rabbit Novels | 816 |
Special Message for the Franklin Library Edition of Memories | 825 |
Special Message for the Franklin Library Edition | 832 |
Foreword to the French Translation of Facing Nature | 838 |
Index | 857 |
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